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Spring 2009
Phase III Clinical Trial E~1.pdf (597 KB)  Editorial AHJ.pdf (55 KB)Congratulations to Dr. Mark Courtney on winning Best Faculty Presentation at the 2009 SAEM Annual Meeting. Congratulations to Dr. Erin Lareau on winning Best Discussant at the regional CPC. She moves on to the finals at ACEP in Boston On the behalf of the education committee we would like to thank all those who attended the 4th Annual Emergency Medicine Teaching Awards Banquet. For those who could not make it, below are the list of awards. Please join us in congratulating the recipients. Also, special recognition was given to Dr. Morris Kharasch for his continued superb teaching and resident education. The Best Teacher Award was renamed the Dr. Morris Kharasch Award for Teaching Excellence. The award this year went to Dr. Amer Aldeen. Awards: Attendings Best Clinician: Dr. Faines Best Role Model: Dr. Kippenhan Best Module: Ortho (Drs. Levine, Chiampas, Malik) Best Lecture: Drs. Adams (dysrhythmia and hemostais) and Zull (CPC Series) Above and Beyond: Dr. Aldeen Best Innovations: Dr. Levine, ortho teaching files (who sent recognition to Steve Zahn and Matt Kleinmeyer for their help with this) Best Procedure Teacher: Drs. Malik and Schmidt Awards: Residents Best Teacher: Wes Self Best Clinician: Ambrose Insua Best Role model: Wes Self Best Lecture: Josh Hilton Best Procedure Teacher: JVR Best Team Player: Dave Salzman Best Consulting resident: Timothy Smith (neurosurgery) Faculty & Residents, attached is a schedule highlighting Northwestern's contributions at the 2009 SAEM Annual Meeting. It includes paper presentations, posters, and didactics where our faculty or residents are presenting authors or co-authors as well as the Chief Resident Forum and Medical Student Symposium. Congratulations to Sarah and Joe Donlan - their daughter Alexandra "Alexa" DeBoer Donlan was born May 12, 2009. Alexa weighed in at 7lbs, 1oz and was 19.5" long. Both Mom and Alexa are doing great! Congratulations to Sarah Donlan and Erin Quattromani for their peer reviewed publication on therapy for acute heart failure syndromes. Therapy for acute heart failure syndromes. Curr Cardiol Rep. 2009 May;11(3):192-201. PMID: 19379639 [PubMed - in process] Incoming intern Brian Patterson will be presenting his MPH project to the Department of Preventive Medicine on May 8th at 10 am in the Lakeshore Conference on the 11th Floor of the Rubloff Building (750 N. Lakeshore - connected to the Law School). "Cost-Effectiveness of Influenza Vaccine Administration in the Emergency Department Setting" Drs. Khare, Courtney, and Kyriacou are co-investigators. Please Join us if you have the opportunity. CE_Presentation_Schedule.pdf (15kb) Winter 2008 Congratulations to Dr. Gisondi, on his publication. Dr. Kyriacou will be teaching a course in Intermediate Epidemiology starting January the 7th, and meets every Weds at 1 PM in Prentice Conference Room N. You are welcome to sit in or participate with any session. For more information please click on link below. Intermediate Epidemiology Syllabus Congratulations on both there new appointments to Dr. Peter Pang as Associate Chief, Clinical Affairs and Dr. Mike Schmidt as Medical Director, Clinical Operations in the Department of Emergency Medicine. Congratulations to Dr. Dave Zich, who was named an outstanding teacher by the students on the Internal Medicine, when he was on the teaching service in October. [Commentary, Invited, Peer-reviewed] Gisondi MA. “A case for education in palliative and end of life care in emergency medicine.” Academic Emergency Medicine. 2009 Feb;16(2):181-3. PMID: 19133843 Congratulations to Dr. Wang, et al and Dr. Van Roo et al authored some the top 10 downloaded articles from AEM in 2008. Wang's was "The Emergent Cricothyrotomy" and Dr. Van Roo's was "Central Venous Catheterization-Right Internal Jugular Approach" These video procedures have proven to be very popular. |